Seeing The Unseen

It came upon a midnight clear, That glorious song of old, From angels bending near the earth, To touch their harps of gold: “Peace on the earth, goodwill to men, From heaven’s all-gracious King.” The world in solemn stillness lay, To hear the angels sing. Last Sunday I was on nursery duty, which I am very thankful for.   It’s a blessing for us to have a nursery full of little people and an answer to many prayers.   But because of that, the only part of the service I was in for, was the singing time.   Since it’s Christmas that is an especially nice thing, and I was enjoying singing along to the carols with everyone else, when a verse of a familiar carol arrested my attention.   We were singing, “It Came Upon a Midnight Clear” and I found that the lyrics to a less familiar verse captivated me, and spoke to my heart the meaning of Christmas and the reason why this season is so special.   It was the message my heart needed that morning.   And y...

We have had a LONG two months of sickness.   It surprised me tonight when I sat down to write, that it has indeed been two months where not a week has gone by where someone in our home was not sick or injured. It’s kept me so busy that I missed writing in October and November.     It all started right after my birthday when I threw my lower back out and ended up out flat for a week.   We followed that up by a bout of influenza that is still lingering, have passed through everyone in our family and now is making a second round with Maddie and Ollie   who I suspect never quite shook it the first time.   Somewhere in there Rob threw his upper back out, and then his shoulder, Maddie had an eye infection, and Oliver got into the medicine cabinet overdosed on TUMS.   We’ve never had it this bad before.   I am starting to feel like “those people”.   You know the ones that are never far from disaster?   That isn’t usually us, but recently it fe...